 A small Seymour's farm, located in the village of Labry, is a means of survival for Philip Simeon. Situated next to the crossover park, the farm is a site that mingles with the magnificent coral reefs in that area to add diversity to the striking fishing village. So right now I have a small farm, it's about 80 or 70 lines I have in the water and trying right now to develop it more because it seems there are areas or there are ways has been opened to me so that I can you know go further and expand it so that I can meet the demands right now that is ahead of me. A specific type of Seymour's used by the Labry Seymour's farmer is the Yutuma. It is a species that is considered extremely valuable. I have the blessed plant so that I can plant Seymour's Yutuma because it fights against all different you know like morn and all different appetites that you know move across the sea because watch it, it's slimy. You can pass your hand on it, it's so slimy so anything that rests on it it will just wash out. The specific advantages of this plant is that it stays completely clean when it's growing. All of the other species at certain times of the year would get covered with other plants and animals and make it very difficult to clean. This particular species stays totally clean all year round. It also has a very good growth rate, doubling in weight in approximately 10 days. The production of Seymour's is a labour intensive process that needs to be approached systematically. I'll take a piece of Yutuma about that size and then I'll push it in the rope see that's how it's starting then if it is a 20-10 feet you bend the end of the rope we fire and you tie two anchors to it and then put floats. A very important element of Seymour's production is harvesting. Right now what I'm doing there, I'm harvesting, afterwards take it back on shore, put it in a nylon, then let it bleach, if I have fair weather, without clouds, you find it will take one day to bleach. But if it is cloudy and the weather is disturbing, you'll find it will take two days to bleach. Drainning the Seymour's is fundamental to the process. This involves draining the Seymour's. I've seen the nylon right now, well-organized, make sure it's well-organized, then you have to put a stone that's in the mouth, right, then when the sun hits it maybe around two o'clock so it will be bleached. Then when it bleaches, you turn it to the next phase and then afterwards you wash it well and then put it on a rack. The method used to dry the Seymour's is essentially a natural process. The obvious lack of modern technology for that particular process warrants a longer period of drying time. The obvious result for the entrepreneur is less profit. So what I'm trying right now, Kari already designing something for me, a solar. A solar, the glass will be at the top there, will have trays so that the Seymour's can be inside there. And then even though the weather is like that, I can get a cure faster than having wetting on the sun when there is a lot of rain. I won't have a problem to fight against the rain, cover the Seymour's, it's properly covered so I need to move further into technology. Marketing is the key that opens doors to consumers. Although Simeon has not benefited from formal marketing classes, he has been able to employ instinctive marketing strategies that have worked for the business. What I did, I'll call them supermarkets. When I first started, I started with St. Lucia Market in Board, Fishwind Complex and Julian's and JQ. Now I'll call them and tell them, are you interested in Seymour's? They will tell me, no, they are not so interested, they don't know what it's all about. So what I'll do, I'll try to convince them, tell them, okay, if you all don't know what it's all about, what's about if I bring three packets of Seymour's or five packets of Seymour's so that they can put it on the shelf and try it on the shelf, they'll tell me, okay, they'll try it like that. When I'll bring, I'll bring 10 or five, within two weeks, it disappears on the shelf. They'll call me, they'll tell me bring 50. When they're 50 finished, they'll call me, they'll tell me, give me 100 parcels. That's how I go about, you know, marketing the Seymour's. Recently, regional institutions such as the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute have offered assistance to the small businessmen in the area of marketing. A person from Trinidad told me that they want to be my agent. So what I did, I sent some samples of my packages. I sent it up to him so that he can, you know, what the samples I gave him so that he can have it there, you know, and trying to distribute it to his customers and things like that. Government has also played a facilitating role in the development of the Seymour's farm. I'm on my way, you know, so that the government could assist me. Because right now, my product has been tested in one of the labs in Trinidad. And it's at that lab, and I need money, you know, to go up there to learn the technology to process it. And as soon as I hand over that money to them, I believe that the government will assist me there. The Seymour's farm is on the verge of developing into a significant contributor to the local economy. Its importance to Philip Simeon and, by extension, the lab community is invaluable. So I want to send a message to the consumers out there. Mr. Simeon will be on the market maybe next year, it can be next year, because things take time to develop. Because it took me 11 years so that the media can know that, you know, I have a product in existence. So it can be next year, it can be six months time, I don't know. But I'm sending my message to my consumer, people that buy Seymour's Seymour's. They might see me in our next fashion, not only in packages, but they will see me in a different way, so that my product have all the nutritious values and everything. So they don't have a method of saying, oh, I don't know how to prepare, just pick it up on the shelf and drink Simeon's Seymour's. If you want to familiarize yourself with Simeon's Seymour's farm, take a trip to the magnetic fishing village of Labri. Persons such as Simeon are encouraged to check with the National Research and Development Foundation, NRDF, the Small Enterprise Development Unit, CEDU, or the James Beal Group Micro Enterprise Development Fund, Beal Fund for Possible Financial and Technical Assistance.